Existential Risk

Do people seriously worry about existential risk from AI?

Is the UN concerned about existential risk from AI?

If I only care about helping people alive today, does AI safety still matter?

How can progress in non-agentic LLMs lead to capable AI agents?

How might AGI kill people?

How and why should I form my own views about AI safety?

How can I convince others and present the arguments well?

How can I update my emotional state regarding the urgency of AI safety?

Does the importance of AI risk depend on caring about the long-term future?

Why does AI takeoff speed matter?

How likely is extinction from superintelligent AI?

What is the "long reflection"?

What are the main sources of AI existential risk?

Could AI alignment research be bad? How?

Isn’t the real concern with AI something else?

What are some arguments why AI safety might be less important?

What are existential risks (x-risks)?

Are there any detailed example stories of what unaligned AGI would look like?

Will AI be able to think faster than humans?

What is perverse instantiation?

What is AI alignment?

Would a slowdown in AI capabilities development decrease existential risk?

What is reward hacking?

Why would a misaligned superintelligence kill everyone?

Aren't AI existential risk concerns just an example of Pascal's mugging?

What is Vingean uncertainty?

What is the "sharp left turn"?

Might someone use AI to destroy human civilization?

Predictions about future AI